underlying substrate

collocation in English

meaningsofunderlyingandsubstrate

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underlying
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
real but not ...
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substrate
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsʌb.streɪt/us
/ˈsʌb.streɪt/
biology
a substance or surface that an organism grows and lives on and is ...
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It seems that the vegetation islands do not grow by degrading theunderlyingsubstratebut by occupying pre-existing depressions, where sand and organic matter accumulate.
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We approximate the contact angle by the angle which is made by the inscribed tangent circle and theunderlyingsubstrateat their point of intersection.
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They are implied by theunderlyingsubstrate, which the user of language has in mind.
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Theunderlyingsubstrateof altered biogenic amine system function appears to persist and this could be because there is a critical or sensitive period for the development of these systems.
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Theunderlyingsubstratein the area is sedimentary interbedded shale, sandstone and limestone.
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In radulae that just sweep, rather than rasp, theunderlyingsubstrate, the shaft and cusp are often continuous and can not be differentiated.
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Instead, novel methods of crystallizing the silicon without disturbing theunderlyingsubstratehave been studied extensively.
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Another method of achieving the same result is the use of a laser to heat the silicon locally without heating theunderlyingsubstratebeyond some upper temperature limit.
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If such a material is deposited in the delay line of a surface acoustic wave sensor, a change in length of the deposited film will stress theunderlyingsubstrate.
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A resist can be patterned via lithography to form a (sub) micrometer-scale, temporary mask that protects selected areas of theunderlyingsubstrateduring subsequent processing steps.
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Digital operations cause fluctuations in theunderlyingsubstratevoltage, which spreads through the common substrate causing variations in the substrate potential of sensitive devices in the analog section.
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The floating body effect causes a variable capacitance to appear between the bottom of the tub and theunderlyingsubstrate, and was a problem that originally bedeviled circuit designs.
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